Manchester hit-and-run crash ends in driver's arrest

Police find blue van covered with tarp

7:10 PM,
Feb. 23, 2013

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Police arrested a man Friday following a hit-and-run accident that left a woman injured, police Capt. Lisa Parker said.

Edward J. Whiteford, 49, was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence and multiple motor-vehicle violations, after his blue van was found covered with a tarp, parked on Madison Avenue near the suspect's home, Parker said in a news release.

The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. Friday at the intersection of Southampton Boulevard and Madison Avenue in the Pine Lake Park section. When Patrolman Thomas O'Hare arrived, the 23-year-old female driver of a 2009 Toyota ...